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America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
Education Does Not Resolve Gender Wage Gap
Even among bachelor?s degree holders in the same field of study, women generally earned significantly less than men in 2022, according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
A recently released table package shows that men with a bachelor?s degree or higher earned more than women with the same education in all fields but that the difference in median earnings varied by field of degree.
Men have median annual earnings of $123,800 in electrical engineering, the highest of all fields, while women?s earnings are 85.0% of men?s ($105,200). Another high earning field for women is in computer science ($91,990), but their earnings are 79.6% of men?s ($115,500).
Family and consumer sciences had among the lowest median earnings of all fields of study as well as the greatest differences by sex, with women earning $51,590, 73.2% of men?s median earning of $70,440.
Continue reading?to learn more about lower earnings in fields of study dominated by women.
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